Posted on 08/11/2018 11:48:40 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Health officials have confirmed 12 cases of rat lungworm disease in the continental United States since January 2011 — including six patients who had not traveled abroad but still contracted the illness caused by a parasite endemic to tropical regions in Asia and Hawaii.
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The disease is also known as angiostrongyliasis, after the parasitic roundworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis whose larvae hatch in the lungs of rats and then are expelled in the rodents’ excrement. At that point, the larvae can be picked up by snails and slugs, and then passed along to humans if the snails and slugs are eaten raw. On July 30, researchers added centipedes to the list of creatures that can transmit the disease to humans, after a Chinese woman and her son contracted the disease in 2012 after eating raw centipedes bought at a market (SN Online: 7/30/18).
More than half of the recent U.S. cases involved patients who had eaten raw vegetables, likely inadvertently consuming a snail or slug, and at least one case involved a toddler who ate slugs while playing. Of the six cases confirmed as originating within the country, four were reported from Texas, one from Tennessee and one from Alabama.
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cept in S.F., those aint slugs.....
Last decade, Canada had that bout of SARS from all its Asian inhabitants traveling back and forth, along with non-Canadian relatives.
Even they cook them.
It doesn’t look like there’s any cure. This is a nasty critter. But like my Dad always said, there’s always something trying to eat you. Really there are parasites and bugs and germs constantly trying to do just that.
Raw centipede anyone? How about seconds?
Yuck
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